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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: Kevin_Bones on January 28, 2014, 02:26:37 pm
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Hi,
I ended up buying a bracelet in a box lot. It is very tarnished and hard to read the markings on the inside. I looked at a couple of pages trying to find a mark similar to any of these but couldn't find anything. On the inside of the bracelet, it says "Mexico 925", "Mexico", and "Sterling" all around. There is another marking but I can't make it out because it is half tarnished. Does anybody here know about Mexico sterling silver pieces? I am suspicious of this bracelet being fake.
Thanks
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(http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e266/152939/1_zps00513bfd.jpg) (http://s41.photobucket.com/user/152939/media/1_zps00513bfd.jpg.html)
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There's some information on Mexican silver here:
http://jacksonjewels.com/Reference/Silver_Jewerly_Information_Hallmarks.htm (http://jacksonjewels.com/Reference/Silver_Jewerly_Information_Hallmarks.htm)
It sounds as if your bracelet would be in the 1950's to 1970's era. In 1979 the Mexican government required a registry mark be stamped on silver jewelry.
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Agree with what Rauville put about the requirement by the Mexican government to have a registry mark. (But being next to Mexico and seeing lots of items that flow into the US in our neck of the woods, that doesn't always happen! Right Mart?)
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So true !!
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Many of the artist signed the jewelry they made. That may be what the mark is.
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Its marked 925 its the same silver purity as ours !! Even for melt,,silver is silver and worth keeping !! Just start a little pile and when you get a bunch of it,,sell !!
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Hold on to that for a bit. Silver is low right now and those still sell well. Gold is poised to be dropping soon and silver will go on the upswing. Wait a bit and you will do well on that.
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Silver is used in so many industrial applications that it won`t likely stay low !!
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Looks like your little item(s) could use a clean-up (sometimes helps seeing marks/details) ... since they're not antiques , I'd just give them a hot water wash with dish soap & then get a non-metalic bowl & add hot water & a spoon of baking soda --- put a piece of aluminum foil (a little bigger than the item being de-tarnished) in the bottom of the bowl & set your (suspected) silver atop it ... should take just a min or two ; rinse well with hot water afterwards .
The one bracelet looks like silver-plate over copper (but silver often appears like copper or gold in photos) ... doing the above cleaning should/will reveal if any of your items are plated , Kevin_Bones .
I can't see for beans , from your images , though ... I'd just give the suggestion to check out some Taxco silver marks (major center of silverworking , South o' the border) sometimes a Taxco mark will draw a customer & a buck or 2 more !
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Thanks everyone. I was looking at some Taxco marks but I can't see well enough to identify what mark it might be. I will throw it in a pile in my barn and wait until I have more sterling to sell. I like that idea ;D